Does the harkness tower really have something to do with the yale skull and bones?

Question

pls give detail or symbols or evidence for your answer if it is yes.

Answer 1

It's just the OPPOSITE in fact!

(Unless, of course, you consider the Harkness's & friends & non-Skull alumni were in a little BATTLE wtih the Skulls & Bones as having something to DO with the tower.....then yes, sure, they were "getting BACK at the S&B's.)

The beginning of an esteemed Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut) tradition of students challenging the society system and then accepting its rewards was the decision of fifteen members of the Yale Class of 1884 to abet the incorporation of The Third Society, later known as Wolf's Head Society.

Members of the Yale Class of 1884 joined forces with over 300 Yale alumni to counter the dominance of Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key societies in undergraduate and university affairs.

The founding was associated with new rites among undergraduates and graduates. Bright College Years, the alma mater, was penned by Henry Durand, an alumni-supporter of the incorporation, in 1881, his senior year, with the encouragement of William L. Harkness, a fellow classmate and Grey Friar. Harkness's younger brothers, Charles, namesake of Harkness Tower, and Edward, the philanthropist, were members.The incorporation continued successfully the tradition of founding a society if enough potential members thought they had been overlooked by the extant groups.

Grey Friars mocked as "poppycock" the seemingly Masonic-inspired rituals of Bones and Keys.

In point, the Harkness's were ANTI-Skull and Bones.

But they were all around at the same time, so you DO see some "symbolic" similairities.... a lot of it "poking fun" at S&B's.